There were almost 90,000 searches on the BUFVC’s Moving Image Gateway in the last 12 months, covering dozens of topics and academic disciplines. Here are 5 of our favourites from the entries we entered or edited in the last week, running the gamut from sex education to the history of the British Isles. Today we also highlight one of our favourite playwrights, Edward Albee, author of the classic drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, who is featured in the BBC Front Row American Authors Collection.

BBC FRONT ROW – THE AMERICAN AUTHORS COLLECTION
To coincide with Mark Lawson’s Capturing America series on Radio 4, the BBC has made permanently available on the Front Row website twenty full-length interviews with leading American authors including: Edward Albee, Patricia Cornwell, Don DeLillo, EL Doctorow, Dave Eggers, James Ellroy, John Irving, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, August Wilson, and Tom Wolfe.

American author Edward Albee (image courtesy of MDCarchives)

JOININGTHEDOCS.TV
Documentary channel offering a selection of international, director-led films on demand, via video streaming.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE: RSM VIDEOS
A pilot online service from that streams video recordings and powerpoint presentations of lectures given at the RSM.

SEXPERIENCE
This extensive two-way website supports the Channel 4 series The Sex Education Show and along with relevant clips from the series also includes many video interviews

TIMELINES.TV
This large resource, written by Andrew Chater, offers a variety of media materials pertaining primarily to the history of Britain with moving image content supplied by the BBC and the Wellcome Trust.